I spent a few minutes looking back at the last 4 years of construction cost inflation. Ah the good old days. The first chart below is...

Yes, I know it’s a little bit of a click-bait, but after a several months of declining construction cost escalation, (often close to zero...

Now what am I going to write about? Greater market inflation continues to struggle several points above the FED's preferred 3% target,...

Interesting study in how data can mislead, or fail to provide complete information: The rate of inflation, both in the greater economy as...

After a few years of insanely bad news for construction costs – 20% annual inflation, supply chain disruptions, and lead times longer...

Frequently conversations regarding construction cost these days contain the phrase – “How much higher can it go?” It does seem as if...

Digging around in the data vaults of the FED, just a quick look at the annual (trailing) change in construction jobs since 1940 – The war...

It’s in all the news, inflation is back. Construction firms have lived with inflation all along – when your margin is 3%, and...

An article by Joe Gordon for Bisnow in San Francisco, discusses the state of the market in warehouse space, at least as far as it relates...

To quote Ben Franklin, and others, “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”. For 2022, you might want...

Careful with your Value Engineering! Reports from manufacturers indicate 50 week or longer lead times, and pricing at double or more of ...

Bloomberg has a feature story about the drought in South America and trivializes the impacts with the lede “No country on Earth puts more...

During the pandemic, almost every discussion about how busy the markets are, has had one large footnote: Residential is going...

I hear lots of talk in the marketplace about escalation, anecdotes about troubled buy-outs, supply delays and general chaos. Anecdotes...

The virus has some strategies that make it a fearsome competitor. Are any of these strategies useful for our industry? 1) Strike...

So far this week, (it is Tuesday as I write this), I have had 3 in-depth conversations about construction inflation. Topics ranged from...

COVID, and a massive increase in demand for residential housing is having a new impact in the industry - I've heard multiple anecdotes...

ENR https://www.enr.com/articles/51519-construction-jobs-jump-by-110000-in-march?oly_enc_id=3536I0798201B9X notes a nice bump in...

What happened with renewable energy while we’ve all been cocooning in our respective Covid pods? The big picture is that total energy use...

It may seem unlikely, but one major factor in construction manager staffing is the requirements that surety firms place on construction...